00:01 John Daub: So there it is in Ginza. We have here a new vending machine. We've had the orange one all over Japan actually. I'm starting to see this in different areas. You got the fresh oranges that go in here. They cut it up and then they squeeze it in this machine. It's so fascinating to see what vending machines are doing. But I just saw this recently, yesterday when I was doing the live stream here. It's called Feed Me Apple. It's 700 yen, which is about $4 for freshly pressed apple juice. This is pretty crazy stuff.

00:31 John Daub: So I thought I would try this out with you live. Why not? Vending machines—you know my friend Eric Berg, you guys know him, his channel. I'm always so inspired by the vending machines he finds. I don't know if he's done this one yet, but I think this is going to be pretty interesting. It is chilly out here. Yesterday must have been about 5 or 6 degrees warmer Celsius, which is like 10 or 12 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was today. I was just over there riding back home and I saw this vending machine. I was like, I got to try this thing tomorrow. And today is tomorrow. Alright, let's go try this out here. 700 yen. Now I'm going to go with my Suica card because it just says cashless. You could do cash but you have to use coins. I just think cashless might be better. You can use your credit card. This machine doesn't provide change, so you have to have exact change.

01:34 John Daub: Okay, I'm going IC card. It doesn't take Amex by the way. Done. Oh, the cup just dropped right there. Oh this is awesome. Okay, here it comes. Oh there's the apple. It just smashed the apple. Oh it's filling. Is one apple enough? Okay, another apple just went in there. Look at the way it crushes it up like that. I think it's two apples. Look at that fresh juice. Just two apples. The machine stopped.

02:28 John Daub: I think the window will open automatically. Okay, where'd it go? It went inside. I put a lid on it. There you go. It's kind of warm, it's frothy. There's a straw here, which is very nice. So somehow inside of there the machine put this plastic cover on it. So this is great for kids to have that plastic cover on there. I don't like plastic though. There's no trash can by the way.

03:14 John Daub: Alright, let me try this out. The best way to do this is to try this out to see if the plastic top actually does anything for it. It really does hold the apple juice in there. Alright, that was just a test to see if it actually works. And I got plastic all in my drink probably. It's just more fun to do this stuff live. Well one thing is for sure, it's a cardboard straw, the ones that you get at Starbucks. I've got a tripod here, so I'm going to put it there.

04:34 John Daub: Okay that's a little bit better. My hands are cold. Yeah you know it didn't come out so cold. I guess in the winter you don't need it to be chilled or to put ice in it. But it's filled to about here. Alright, itadakimasu (let's eat). This is good. It's really good. It's not processed at all. You've got the greenness, that sweet acidic taste of the skins of the apple. That's how you know it's fresh. It's really good. I like this. It's like pure apple, pure sugar.

06:00 John Daub: Kanae caught me—she goes you're complaining about the plastic tops and then you're complaining about the cardboard. You can't have it both ways. I'm just trying to get the microplastics out of my diet if that's even possible. I watch too much internet stuff. It's complicated. It's really good. I think they're using like the green apples. So they're a little bit sweeter than the red ones maybe. Maybe they're not even domestic apples. We'll check it out to see if there's any information on this. I just don't like cardboard straws. Does anybody?

06:33 John Daub: Our friend WRX Turbo is in the house—here's a little extra since I missed a few streams. You have but I've always so appreciated WRX Turbo. Thank you so much. I wanted to try this out because I'm probably going to be coming with Leo here and he loves apple juice and now that we tried it out. My friend David who's here about two months ago—I don't know if you guys saw that episode. He took me inside of his monthly mansion. If you haven't seen that go check it out on this channel. We did a tour of his monthly mansion and for the price that he paid for and for the location right near Wano Station, it was really amazing. And he was addicted to this. Every time we went out he's like I need to stop and get an orange juice. So I think he got him hooked on this. But David if you're watching, welcome to the apple world my friend. When you come back with LS you're going to have some apple juice here. What's next, pear juice? A coconut milk? They put anything in a vending machine.

07:47 John Daub: My Mark writes in here, good episode. That's probably Almaty apples but we got to always check it out. I'm always looking to support the local economy. That's the best thing.

08:04 John Daub: Just a quick note. I'm gonna talk a little bit more about vending machines here in Japan but I just finished up the postcard for this month if you are a member of the postcard club. This is this month's postcard. It's Rikubetsu (りくべつ), which is the coldest town in Japan. Now I wanted to make this postcard real interesting. The sign was on a boring street, a boring road, and the drone shot alone was kind of boring, so I just put the two together. And it's kind of a neat postcard. If you want to, please help support the channel by the postcard club here. Here's some pictures. I was there in the year 2000, see you can see the boring street here. Right when the pandemic was hitting. This is the coldest town in Japan. It was also my birthday. This is five years ago, almost to the day. And I got the cake out and I was 46 years old. Don't ask me how old I am. It was minus 21 when I ate my cake. When I went back out before bed, it was minus 27. So yeah, minus 27. This is kind of neat to have my birthday spent by myself out here. This is before Leo was born too. I was hoping it got to minus 28. I don't remember, but it was certainly a good memory to go to Japan's coldest town. And I put QR codes on the postcards so you can see a video that is related to the postcard that I took. And it'll probably be my birthday live stream on the back with the QR code. So it brings the postcards to life with an episode from the past.

09:52 John Daub: I see Ellis is here. Ellis, I was just talking about David and his addiction to these vending machines here. There's an apple one now. So tell David that there's apple here. And Michael Susano's in the house. Aloha, finally caught a live stream. I could use a freshly squeezed juice right now. Well buddy, I know you're not here. This swig is for you. It's so good. 700 yen is a lot. When you consider the price, you're trying to economize your trips to Japan, you're probably trying to save as much money as possible. I don't know, getting a green tea out of a vending machine for 150 yen, not a bad deal.

10:32 John Daub: Now it's all the way—I drank about half of it. There's a QR code if you want to screenshot it. You can go take a look at their Instagram, I guess. I'll give them a little plug here. I see Beckin1239 has been here for 21 months. Thank you for being a part of this. Thank you for being a part of the travelers. And Ellis, you're at 55 months as an insider. I appreciate it so much. I'll take a couple of questions here. By the way, I've been getting—Air to the Ron is in the house as well, contributing to the drink funds. Thank you, Aaron. So good. It's 700 yen, approximately $4.50. I'll go take a look at it for a second here before I end the live stream, I'll go over there.

11:22 John Daub: I've been finding more and more really odd vending machines around Japan. But the thing is, they're not really exciting. They don't use microwaves or they come out frozen or you can't really see the insides of them. They just look like boxes that do stuff. So I like the fact that you can see inside of this vending machine and kind of brings the juice to you. Everyone's trying to live healthier, little by little. You know, I'm trying my best to. So this isn't an everyday thing. But a vending machine for 150 yen probably could. But they did their homework. For tourists coming here with US dollars, $4.50 is probably pretty reasonable. And you get to get something from a weird vending machine. Kind of works out pretty nice. Well, thank you for the birthday gifts, for the birthday messages. Here's your birthday gift, Beyond Truffle, Truffle Lover. Thank you so much. I appreciate it, guys.

12:25 John Daub: All right, let me go take you to the machine here. My fingers are starting to freeze. And I promised myself I'm not going to get another burrito. Yesterday I've been putting the Super Chats to work. I got a burrito the other day. All right, let me go and take you. You're gonna go a little wobbly on the gimbal for a second. Hold on a second. All right, now we're back. Let's go check this out as the sun comes out here in Ginza.

13:01 John Daub: Oh, they do have Engrish. Open app again. Oh crap. I think I just bricked it. So it's 6.4 degrees Celsius. So if I push English, it bricks the machine. Touch screen. It says under system maintenance. All right, well whatever I did, I think I messed it up. Here's the orange one. The orange one is 600 yen. It's hard to see because of the glare. It doesn't really tell you any information about it. That's kind of a waste of the panel. And by the way, I guess inside it's three degrees Celsius inside of there, but it doesn't tell you any of the information from it. Just about where the straws are. The oranges are from Australia. So for Australians visiting, it's nothing special. Where are you going to get oranges in Japan, right?

14:33 John Daub: So it's a little bit of a mess. It doesn't say, it doesn't talk about the apples very much here. Just 100% apples. I'm going to guess it's domestic, but it is pretty cool to look inside of the machine and then see it work. This one's under—there's the press there. How do they clean it though? I wonder. It costs Singapore $2 per cup from the orange vending machine here. Really? That's pretty good. Well, I think oranges are cheaper in Singapore maybe.

15:19 John Daub: There's a cold front coming in, supposedly snow as well. The weather here in Tokyo is sunny on one side and it looks kind of scary on the other. Look at it. We've gotten a lot of snow already this year in the mountains in Japan. Here's the sunshine side. It's kind of weird temperature. Warming up my apple juice. If you find any other unusual vending machines, definitely let me know. I would love to find out. I'm always on the lookout. I'm still looking for the ramen in a can. I think the campaign might be over, but that started December in the Suntory vending machines, which are the cheap ones, 100 yen for each one. I haven't been able to see that.

16:25 John Daub: This is really good. And I do like the plastic top. I think that's pretty nifty. Maybe the way they do it, they use less plastic, so that's probably a good thing. They're doing their part. No trash cans. So the thing you got to do, you won't find trash cans on the streets in Japan, not like in other countries. So you got to take the paper cup into the FamilyMart across the street and inside there they've got trash cans or just take it back to your hotel. That'd be my suggestion to you.

17:06 John Daub: They had canned ramen about 15 years ago, but it went away. It just made a big mess. And so they brought it back. It's 500 yen a can right now, but Suntory vending machine, apparently they're sold out or they only made a limited amount in collaboration with a famous ramen shop up in Tohoku. Look at that bus. The bus is, I would say 90% chance that Chinese tourists visiting Japan right there. They always pull the bus over on the sides of the streets. And then everybody gets out and then you hear Mandarin or Cantonese. It's kind of neat. See people getting off of the bus traveling. They go shopping. The tourists from China in this area and they come back with massive bags. I've been watching. So the economy looks like it's back. It's good news, at least for the tourism industry.

18:02 John Daub: All right, there you go, everybody. Amazing apple juice. As you can see, I think they were the yellow variety of it. I think it was worth it for 700 yen. I think it's a treat that you can get. It's going to be really great in the summertime. I don't know how many apples that they can put in there, but you can see the thickness of the machine and the one on the left side. So there's probably all filled with apples, but a lot of people walk by here, they stop and check it out and it's certainly getting a little bit of a buzz. And I don't know if there's any more of these vending machines, but apparently it's one of the first ones here in Japan. And I bet you they come out with coconuts and they put the coconuts on the top of the machine. Maybe they come out with a ton of different ideas. If you're watching from Singapore in the comments, let me know what other fruits are they doing down there. Do they have a lychee machine? A lychee juice machine? How do they get the mangosteen machine going? I'd love to hear that one. All right, everybody. Take care. Mata ne (see you later). Got to get back home before whatever is over there comes this way. Like, it's blue skies and it just looks like an apocalypse over there.